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The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell (b. 1946) as “Britains most respected living horror writer.” He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.

Ramsey Campbell's daring look into the mind of a psychotic killer was published in truncated form in 1979; an expanded edition was later published in 1982 The paranoid outlook of the book's main character, Horridge, is a grim commentary on a bleak Liverpool suburb and Thatcher-era England his edition has the corrected text by Campbell and the compelling photographs of J. K.

Potter, with a new introduction by Poppy Z rite, a bonus short story, and a new afterword by Campbell.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies.
• Introduction by Poppy Z. Brite.
• Afterword by Ramsey Campbell.
• Head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Face That Must Die. Centipede Press page for The Face That Must Die
• Ramsey Campbell (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Ramsey Campbell